WMEX lives

[A Joseph Ross]

I guess Ed Perry was smart enough not to want that Waltham facility.  
Does he intend to continue simulcasting WATD or does he have some other 
plan for the station?  Or don't we know?

On 7/2/2018 3:30 PM, Eli Polonsky wrote:
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:12:59 -0400
>     From: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com
>     <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>>
>     To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
>     <mailto:boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
>     Subject: Re: WMEX lives
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>     Are they still on?? I was in Waltham today, where I would have
>     expected
>     a good signal, and got what sounded like a distant station, which
>     didn't
>     sound like WATD either.
>
> ​WMEX 1510 came on with the WATD simulcast ​Saturday morning through 
> the day Sunday. Sometime Sunday evening it sounded like it lost the 
> audio feed from WATD and there was a blank carrier (with some spurious 
> noise) on 1510 through Sunday night. I didn't check earlier today 
> (Monday) but now as of 3 PM WMEX is simulcasting WATD again.
>
> I would not expect a good, or necessarily even audible, signal in 
> Waltham from the current WMEX transmitter site. It is no longer 
> transmitting from the Waltham site that 1510 moved to in the early 
> 1980's. WATD owner Ed Perry did not include that site (or use of it) 
> in his purchase of WMEX, and those towers were taken down about a 
> month ago.
>
> Ed has WMEX transmitting from the 1260 WBIX site at the Milton/North 
> Quincy line (very near where the original 1510 WMEX transmitter was 
> before its move to Waltham) on a temporary low power transmitter just 
> to get the station on the air before the FCC would have deleted the 
> license after June 30. The signal is very weak to non-existent due 
> west and northwest of Boston.
>
> I don't know the current power but it may be just a hundred watts or 
> so. A 10,000 watt daytime signal is planned from that site by this 
> fall but still down to 100 watts at night (all non-directional).
>
> It is very weak where I live in Somerville. In my travels over the 
> weekend it was very weak in Cambridge, Allston/Brighton and Brookline, 
> and I couldn't hear much of it farther west or northwest that that, 
> though it did put a fair signal southwest, I heard it in Dedham, 
> Westwood, Norwood.
>
> It's spotty in downtown Boston proper, listenable in places. Of 
> course, it's strong in the southerly Boston neighborhoods including 
> Dorchester, South Boston, Mattapan, Hyde Park, W. Roxbury, etc... and 
> the closer you are to the water, the better it is. It's fair at Logan 
> Airport, East Boston and Charlestown, and can be heard on the lower 
> North Shore such as Revere, Lynn, etc... I saw someone else post that 
> it came in well down the South Shore through Braintree but was fading 
> by Weymouth Landing.
>
> EP
>
>

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